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Take a beark at Latvian National Museum of Art. 🎨🖼️

The Latvian National Museum of Art, known in Latvian as Latvijas Nacionālais mākslas muzejs, is a prominent art museum situated in Riga, Latvia. It boasts the largest collection of Latvian national art. With over 52,000 pieces, the museum showcases the evolution of professional art in Latvia and the Baltic region, spanning from the mid-18th century to the modern day. There was performance stuff like painting, photo, sculpture and so on, an overview is quite good and the ticket also cheap.
Posted: Mar 29, 2025
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